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body of a warrior with, his clothes well preserved. They consisted 

 of a high cap, a wide, roundly cut mantle, and a sort of tunic, all 

 of woven wool, and two small pieces of wool which are supposed 

 to have covered the legs. At the feet were seen some small re- 

 mains of leather, which possibly 

 were once shoes. The outside of 

 the cap was covered with pro- 

 jecting pieces of worsted, all 

 ending in a knot, and the in- 

 side of the mantle with pendent 

 worsted threads. The tunic was 

 kept together with a long wool- 

 en belt, which went twice round 

 in the middle, was knotted in 

 front, and had two long ends 

 hanging down and decorated 

 with fringes. There were also 

 found in the grave a second 

 woolen cap, and a woolen shawl 

 decorated with tassels. 



A complete woman's dress 

 (Fig. 5) was found in another 

 Danish barrow, Borum-Eshoi, 

 near Arhus, in Jutland, in 1871. 

 The body had been wrapped in 

 a large mantle, woven with a 

 mixture of wool and cow-hair. 

 The very long hair had proba- 

 bly been fastened up by a horn 

 comb, which was found in the 

 grave. Upon the head was a 

 well-knotted worsted net ; and 

 remains of a second similar net 

 were found. The dress consist- 

 ed of jacket and sleeves, and a 

 long robe, both of woolen stuff, 

 woven in precisely the same 

 way as the clothes' found in the 

 graves already described. The 

 jacket was sewed together un- 

 der the arms and upon the back, 

 and was open in front. The coarse seam on the back showed that 

 it used to be covered by the mantle. The robe was cinctured by 

 two woolen bands, one of coarser and the other of finer work. 

 The latter band, a belt, was of wool and cow-hair mixed, and 

 woven in three rows, of which the middle one seems to have been 



Fig. 5.— Woman's Dress from Borum-KshSi, 

 Jutland. 



